What are the best methods to follow when sanitizing eggs and incubators to reduce bacterial infections?
All incubation factors like temperature and humidity may be operated just right but poor hatchability results because of poor sanitary practices. Poor sanitation causes, not only poor hatch, but subsequent early death loss during brooding. It also causes a lingering morbidity problem that can affect the birds during the grow-out period. Losses during the brooding and grow-out period caused by poor hatchery sanitation can cause more monetary loss than the loss from poor hatchability. Let’s assume you are setting clean, well cared-for eggs. The most important tools available for use in cleaning and disinfecting an incubator and hatcher are water, detergent, and elbow grease. Some people mistakenly think disinfecting agents are the answer to their problems. They think disinfectants can replace poor cleaning, but this simply is not true. Remember this: It is almost impossible to disinfect a dirty environment. Why is this statement true? Because all disinfectants lose much of their effectiv
